Zzap!64, #53

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Sep 1989

Info-Gone!

Award-winning adventure specialists Infocom, after many years of loss-making, are to lose their offices.

The American company, producers of a clutch of critically acclaimed titles including Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Zork series, will be relocated inside their parent company Mediagenic's complex, situated at Menlo Park, California, resulting in the possible loss of around ten members of staff out of 24.

The move follows Mediagenic's realisation of the importance of profitability in a US games marketplace which has had more than its fair share of headaches in the past year. Rob Sears, General Manager of Infocom, unhappy with the demise of his Massachussetts site, exclaimed, 'It's sad that we can't continue to do the things in our own way.' However, he praised the relationship between Infocom and Mediagenic, saying, 'If we didn't have them behind us, we probably couldn't continue at all.'

Marketing Manager for Mediagenic UK, Larry Sparks, dismissed fears of a parting of companies, explaining that the move 'can only improve our communications and operational activities.

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Zzap!64
Sep 1989

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